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Thursday, February 07, 2008

OMG!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Brahms

The text is very important in this song. So, if I decide to sing this song I'd make sure that my diction is very clear. Music is fit into the poetry. This piece is great example of modal mixture and text painting. If you would like to understand the poem you would have to know German very well, because English version is really poor ( so good luck).

The cadence is on the end of the phrase.traurig-sadly m11 D natural in the soprano sounds very sad ( VIflat), also leads to the key of Dtaubenpaar-pair of doves m.17 I6 whit 9-8 goes to V64wende mich-turn away m.22 vii43 /vi goes to vi6

1 comment:

You have some good ideas, but you need to put them together into a coherent essay. Don't just answer the questions, use them to come up with a complete idea about the piece. See Sarah's post above for a good example.

The first cadence isn't an IAC, it is an HC at m. 8. Then at m. 14 it could be regarded a PAC since the piano does resolve to F# on the last eighth, completing the F# in the voice of m. 13.